i post turkic speaker maps in the world.itsnt blacklist topic plz lokk iranic people in asia topic.

Family of more than 20 Altaic languages spoken by some 135 million people from the Balkans to central Siberia.

The traditional division of Turkic is into four groups. The southeastern or Uighur group comprises Uighur, spoken mainly in Xinjiang, China; and Uzbek, spoken mainly in Uzbekistan, other Central Asian republics, and northern Afghanistan. The southwestern, or Oguz, group includes Turkish; Azerbaijani (Azeri), spoken in Azerbaijan and northwestern Iran; Crimean Tatar, spoken mostly in Ukraine and Uzbekistan; and Turkmen, used in Turkmenistan, northern Iran, and northern Afghanistan. The northwestern, or Kipchak, group includes Kazakh, spoken in Kazakhstan, other Central Asian republics, and western China and Mongolia; Kyrgyz, spoken in Kyrgyzstan, other Central Asian republics, and western China; Tatar; Baskhir, spoken in Bashkortostan and adjacent areas in Russia; Karachay-Balkar and Kumyk, spoken in the Russian Caucasus; and Karaim, with a few speakers in Lithuania and parts of southwestern Ukraine. The northeastern, or Altai, group comprises languages and dialects spoken in Siberia northeast of the Irtysh River and in adjacent parts of Mongolia, including Altai, Khakas, Shor, and Tuvan; and Sakha, spoken in Sakha (Yakutia) republic of Russia and adjacent areas. Distinct from all the other languages is Chuvash, spoken in Russia's Chuvash republic and adjacent areas. The earliest attestations of Turkic are a group of 8th-century funerary inscriptions of northern Mongolia, in a distinctive writing system called runic script, or Turkic runes. With the Islamization of nearly all Turkic peoples southwest of the Irtysh beginning c. 900, Turkic languages began to adopt the Arabic alphabet. Today the Latin alphabet and Cyrillic alphabet are more extensively used.

I must agree here. Turkish regions such as Northern Iraq, Western Thrace and southeastern Bulgaria are ignored in that map.

Well, Zagros, I suppose your'e referring to CIA World Fact Data; especially when talking about 2%. You're probably right. But there comes the Iranian numbers which say Turkmens are 2,000,000 and Azeris to be almost 25,000,000. Now, I'm not sure about Azeris. But only the Turkmen city Gonbad-e Qabus (Turkmen Kumbet) have got 1,000,000 in which 60 percent lives in villages who are completely Turkmens and 40 percet in the urbans. It is believed, out of 40 percent, almost 30 percent are Turkmens in the city; let's say 20 (I've been there many times; there are a lot of Turkmens, quite more than 20 percent). So, at least 800,000 from only Gonbad-e Qabus. There are also cities like Aq Qala, Kelala, Turkmen Port, Kumush Tepe that each of them have got more than 100,000. We should also take into account a larger number of Turkmens who live in villages.

Anyhow, we're just talking about probablity. Take care Zagros

I don't think their's anything more hilarious than blatent racist's trying to not only convince others but also decieve themselves that they're not.

So in the case of Central Asia and the Caucauses collaborating with the West is in their interests  everyone gets what they want except Russia.